incest English

Meaning incest meaning

What does incest mean?

incest

— noun sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)

Synonyms incest synonyms

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incest English » English

very heinous sin

unlawfulness

immorality

Topics incest topics

What do people use incest to talk about?

Person Life

Marriage

• What words refer to marrying a close relative?
  incest intermarry

Person Life Sexual relations

Sexual immorality

• What words refer to sex between close relatives?
  have an incestuous relationship incest

Examples incest examples

How do I use incest in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Incest is a taboo found in almost all cultures.

Movie subtitles

The degenaration of these people is caused mainly by hunger lack of hygiene, poverty and incest.

Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest.

Attempted incest with sister.

If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not, let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest!

I have lived in incest with my brother's widow.

He says that incest is a rather boring symptom of the private property system.

It was incest and I've been punished.

Incest will be punished and we have been punished with dead sons.

We used the incest excuse last time.

Incest.

Being your own sister in the flesh, an act of incest.

By the same mother, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the late Duke of Norfolk, and therefore full brother and sister in the flesh so that their lying together would be incest?

We are deformed, due to the continuous incest.

Thou art the chief of accursed murder, thou are the author of incest, the head of sacrilege, the master of the worst actions, the teacher of heretics.

What's the attitude on incest in this country?

Incest is a serious crime.

I think it was the one about the teenage, incest triangle.

Incest!

Incest is common.

If you respect adultery as honourable then bluster still further and praise as holy the incest blossoming from a liaison between twins!

Incest?

Old Hugo didn't mind a little incest.

Your three generations can commit incest with each others!

Walter, that's really a difficult problem, incest, but we'll try to help you.

I accuse the two of you of incest and murder!

That's nice. What's the attitude on incest in this country?

But not in terms of incest, or things like that.

We're deformed from continuous incest.

He says that it is a marriage of incest, a marriage that will bring evils.

After all, there's worse than incest.

Incest horrified me and kept me away from female relatives.

That's incest, no doubt about it.

Incest may be against the law of God but it's the law of California that we're dealing with.

News and current affairs

Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime?

Incest between adults is not a crime in all jurisdictions.

The risk of genetically abnormal children is one such reason; but, even if it were sufficient, it would justify only a prohibition that was both narrower and wider than the current prohibition on incest.

The taboo against incest runs deep, as the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt demonstrated when he told experimental subjects about Julie and Mark, adult siblings who take a holiday together and decide to have sex, just to see what it would be like.

The report, however, made no recommendations about incest involving children, and some of those caught by the criminal law did not even know each other as children.

In the case of the incest taboo, our response has an obvious evolutionary explanation.

That does not augur well for a rational debate about whether incest between adult siblings should remain a crime.

According to the attorney who represented one of the victims, most of these women come from families marred by incest, alcohol abuse, and parental suicide.